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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheAuldGrump" data-source="post: 5599749" data-attributes="member: 6957">It was intended more as a response to the post I quoted, claiming that some preferences are inherently flawed. (I had done so, in a facetious manner, upthread. Here, I think it was fully serious.)I do believe that rules discussion can take place in a civil (if, in my case a didactic) fashion.There have been those, in this thread, who have taken the stance that 4e is a better game and that those who critique it, in a negative or a positive fashion are in the wrong. That by focusing on the combat and encounter resolution 4e was the 'better' game.Other posters, in other threads, have taken much the same stance for opposite cause in regards to 3e, often likening 4e to a popular MORPG. This is a stance I do not take, though I have sympathy for those who claim that 4e has similarity to a board game. (Largely because I have seen a discussion on boardgames get flamed by a 4e player who thought that 4e was being insulted... the discussion in question was about Warhammer Quest, Hero Quest, Dungeon, and the Ravenloft boardgame.... You know, the actual boardgame? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> There are folks who are more tempted by the boardgames than the actual RPG. )I do realize that there are reasons why 4e is focused so tightly on conflict resolution - what many consider to be the 'fun' part of the game. (Here I blame the '20 minutes of fun' quote.)There are others who have interests that diverge from that line of thought, saying that they are wrong is like saying that folks who like vanilla more than pistachio are wrong. (While of course we all realize that chocolate is the supreme ice cream achievement!)The Auld Grump</blockquote>

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